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It's been a pretty crappy birthday for Knuckles the Echidna, but in the land of Animal Crossing, life goes on. Here's some photos I've been taking of my recent adventures!



"TOTALLY NOT THIS GAME, OF COURSE."

( First, let's break my heart and go to Tazmily. )

Puri cries herself awake to a concerned Luna. Next town!

( And it's got the same name as her own! )

( Photos from places I've forgotten... )

( Back to the waking world! )

( Now we're back home! )

( Marius comes to Magicant! Plus QR Code. :3 )

Next time on Animal Crossing, I'll upload two new outfits... both which belong to characters from existing games! Who could they be? Hm...

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Dad got free chicks from a friend yesterday. They're more like teenagers (pullets, they're called?) since their feathers have already grown in, but they're not able to make eggs yet and they make a lot of cute cheeps. They'll be allowed to roam the backyard when they get older. (Dad: "I just hope Freddie doesn't chase them.") I got to feed and give them water this morning. :D

They all got black feathers with brown specks on them. I won't be able to tell them apart, but I'm thinking of giving them names anyway. So far, I'm thinking of all the major female Mother series characters: Ana, Pippi, Maria, Paula, Tracey, Kumatora, and Hinawa.

Edit: I missed two of them! They're dubbed Minnie and Mimmie.





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God, the radar stuff at the hot springs with Ionia was awful. So why did I laugh?



Aww. I forgotten that I named my Favorite Thing that.

Zar's doing a screencap adventure of Mother 3, so I've picked up my file to keep ahead of the recaps. Last night I finished Chapter 4! Without spoiling anything, I want to hug Duster and be his friend. He needs all the love and support and pick-me-ups he can get. ;;

I find myself really disliking Wes(s) a lot more this time around. I dunno, probably after experiencing it with my Mom during her manic episodes, I feel a lot more sensitive and uncomfortable whenever there's verbal/emotional abuse. Not a "ZOMG IM BEING TRIGGERED" thing, I just find myself identifying with the victim a lot more in a "I feel you, man" way. Reading Misery by Stephen King got a whole lot scarier because Annie Wilkes did and said things that my mother had, and the way Mother Gothel in "Tangled" complinsults (???) Rapunzel always unsettled me and I never saw her as a good parent. We'll see if Wess redeems himself in later chapters, but until then, I'm :/ towards him.

Cori Falls would have a heart attack if she ever played Mother 3. She thought Team Rocket had it rough? Weeeeeeell... :P

Speaking of Cori, I finally got my boyfriend James (we'll call him Jimmy to avoid confusion with Team Rocket!Pod!James) to read her writing and rants! We skipped ahead to the DnD session of "A Fair Fight", which he identified as Edition 2. He said there weren't any inaccuracies he could spot with the game they were playing, and if it wasn't for the Ash-bashing, the ridiculously OOC Team Rocket and Gary, and the Mary-Sues, it would've been a heartwarming story about a group of friends playing DnD. The Pod!Rockets and the Sues bullying a 12-year-old reduced to a mentally retarded mindset aside, Jimmy pointed out that the DM Sue had deliberately screwed him over, rather than Ash digging his own grave like Cori insisted.

Jimmy: *in response to the DM Sue literally slapping Ash* Hitting your fellow players. That's totally acceptable DM behavior!

Jimmy's reactions are pretty great to watch. He pumped his fists going "Awesome! :DDD" when it looked like a particularly bad segment was about to begin, laughed his ass off at the Ash-bashing scenes because they reminded him of injokes and Chris-chan, wanted to shoot himself at the obvious Author Filibusters, and pulled up reaction videos to particular segments that made him cringe.

Jimmy: *reading "The Thrill of Defeat"* *facepalm* Oh god. Really?
Me: Which part?
Jimmy: "Velvety"? Ugh.
Me: Velvety what?
Jimmy: *points out "soft, velvety kisses"*
Me: Oh, that's common in romance novels. You have no idea...

Funny how this is one of the things that sets him off, but he takes the crazier shit in stride. :P

Reading Cori with Jimmy is making me want to write a parody Team Rocket fic with the most obvious and out-of-place Author Filibusters possible. You can totally tell Jessie, James and Meowth aren't interested in the same things as I am, especially when they're discussing their favorite Cinema Snob episodes! Oh, and throw in Mary-Sue friends with names like Kanaya Ashtear, Lucca Andonuts, and Homura Lovecraft. They could share their love of Tori Amos and Patrick Wolf. (Since Cori already beat me to Nine Inch Nails. :P)

It makes me wonder what would happen if Cori was in Homestuck fandom. Aside from her blatantly denying any slash in the series (despite it clearly stated to be CANON), I imagine she'd be an Eridan/Feferi shipper and woobify Eridan to the max, while also shipping Karkat/Terezi. Gamzee and Equius would creep her out, she wouldn't like Doc Scratch or Jack Noir, and she'd absolutely detest Vriska and bash her every chance she'd get. Then she'd ragequit the comic canon after Feferi's death, because she'd plug her ears screaming "NOOOOOOOOOOOOO ERIDAN WOULD NEVER DO THIS TO HER!!!!111!11" and then proceed to write AUs where this was all in Vriska's sick fantasies and that Eridan and Feferi are actually living Happily Ever After with a billion grub children.

Of course, if I tell Jimmy that I'm writing a fic where Jessie, James and Meowth are Homestuck geeks, he'll tell me to choke myself. XD Haha. :P

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Beat Chapter 3. I have four words to describe the ending:

Crowning Moment of AWESOME. WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

P.S. Kumatora has single-handly become my favorite Mother series heroine. I love Duster too. ;;

So Mom and I had a fight. I apologized, Mom lifted the ban, now I want to put the situation behind me and not talk about it anymore. I'm already filled with enough stress.

things puri would never say

YOU KNOW YOU WANNA

Puri went looking for 9 icons, nom. Not the greatest but it's the best I could find, considering the movie just came out and all. :o Puri tried making one of her own, but GIMP kept crashing and it made me frustrated. I miss Photoshop so much. ;; While we're at it, let me make a recommendation~ ♥

Whether or not you've seen 9 yet, you'll find the animated short it originated from quite interesting. :o At the end, a lot of audiences asked why the world ended the way it did, hence the movie went under production. :o Dear god, Shane Acker needs to make more animated movies. All the years of hard work that was put into 9 is just incredible. *________*


Click Me!


Yes, I found 9 Squibies. I'm so sad. XD

( The Rest of the Set is Under the Stitch~ ♥ )

It takes 99 to reach the first stage and 499 for final. Dear god, this'll take forever. T____T I'll have Hydra to help out, but still. Click for Puri? It'll make her happy~ *cliiiiing*

( Why Look! It's an Earthbound/Mother Meme I Ganked From DA! )

fannish5: Name your 5 favorite families, from any fandom.

- The Hales from Pokemon: Lord of the Unown Tower. Professor Hale is a sweetheart to read to Molly while her mother was at a mental institution, and it was sad when she was left alone with only the Unown puzzle for company. ("Mama... Papa... and me.") Entei may have been fabricated from her imagination, but damn if he wasn't a sweetheart and did everything he could for her even if the Unown held the real power. Neither was Delia her "mama" but I really came to respect her in this movie. She may have been chosen as a substitute, but she stayed with Molly while she was scared and reminded her that there were people, friends and family who love her and helped her break from her literal crystal prison. TEAAAAAAAAAAAR DOWN THE WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALL! TEAAAAAAAAAAAR DOWN THE WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALL!

- Lucas, Duster, Kumatora & Boney from Mother 3. Because Flint's driven with grief in his search for Claus to the point it implies him forgetting his only other son, Claus has been revived by Pokey and brainwashed to become the commander of the Pig Army, and we know what happened to Hinawa. We can't exactly say Wes is nice to Duster either. :P The Mother 3 heroes really keep together: Boney's been with Lucas since the beginning and Duster and Kumatora are like parents to Lucas. ;;

- Ness's Family from Earthbound/Mother 2. No-nonsense mother who makes your favorite food and comforts you when you're homesick? A little sister working at a job that takes and stores your items? Your Dad (who is a telone) who saves your game AND sends cash everytime you beat a monster? YES PLZ

- Violet, Klaus & Sunny Beudelaire from A Series of Unfortunate Events. Need I say more? Friends and allies are constantly taken away and/or abandon the Beudelaires at their dire need, but Snicket says it himself that those three have been together through and through, and their unwavering loyalty through all those horrible trials in the books never broken.

- The Chaotix from Sonic the Hedgehog. Putting the Funk in Dysfunctional baby. Vector and Espio are Charmy's adoptive parents!

Post the first line of your 25 most recent fics, and look for patterns.

Okay! I've been lame with updates, but hey. XD

( Beginning Fanfic Lines! )

A. Old to New Fandoms: Mario, Sonic, Earthbound, Pokemon
B. Someone's directly addressing/thinking about someone.
C. Puri loves dialog. Usually it's the beginning of a conversation, but middle is good too.
D. "Toto? I don't think we're in Kansas anymore."

Sometimes I think my beginnings are hitting a little on the nose sometimes. XDDD;;; In a "Once upon a time, O NOES my cancer results came back!" kinda way.

Good News: Puri loves Duster~ ♥ I'm still only at chapter 1, but I'm taking my bloody time, kthnx I'm a college student I'm allowed to have excuses. XD Thanks to Mother 3, I've completed the third chapter of my Earthbound megafic Nights of Genesis. Fuck yeah! X33

Bad News: Levi Stubbs, lead singer of Four Tops and voice of Audrey II in Little Shop of Horrors, dies at 72

Long live the Mean Green Mother. ;____;

This article makes me sad.

To think we've worked so hard for years only for what? Nothing.

Regardless of what happens, I'll just keep writing for a series I love...

Maybe I'm just scared if I hope Earthbound'll be on Virtual Console it'll jinx the only chance we got.

I think I know how the Fire Emblem fandom felt when Marth/Roy fangirls started flooding their fandom with OOC badfic when Melee came out.

The Smash fanboys are clogging the Earthbound section. God help me. "lulz I never played da game butt h3rz Mother 3 fic! LUCASXKUMATORA 4EVR!!1!" Um, no. You realize Kumatora's old enough to be Lucas's mom, right? Do you have any basis for pairing them together other than they're the main guy and girl? Besides, wouldn't it be urm... Oedipal? Except I doubt that's what the so-called "fans" had in mind.

Edit: Okay, my mistake. Kumatora's age isn't really stated. I've got nothing against age differences. What got Puri was from her knowledge of Mother 3, Duster and Kumatora were like a "second family" to Lucas while Flint wasn't there. So Puri viewed Lucas and Kumatora being close friends. And if Kumatora was like a "mother figure" to him, wouldn't it be like falling for your own mother? That's what Puri meant. Forgive me, I'm feeling light-headed especially when typing in the heat without food. @.@;;;

Thank god there's a couple people leaving huge intense constructive criticism.

I wish whoever keeps posting these "_________ PAIRING MADNESS!" 'fics' would just. Fucking. Stop. It's like those disgusting Ask Fics before they were banned, only know the reviewers sent pairings instead of questions. THOSE FICS PISS ME OFF. If you're braver than I am (I only glanced at the Ness/Pokey chapter), this is the source of my rage. Pairings mutilated and their carcass left to rot: Ness/Paula, Jeff/Tony *SCREECHSTAB*), Lucas/Kumatora, Pokey/Giygas, Flint/Hinawa (*SCREECHSTABAGAIN*), Ness/Pokey, and Jeff/Paula.

I swear to hell it's a good thing people get cooties from Mother 1. This guy nudges Poo/Paula, I'm gonna have to whip out a chainsaw.

Yes, this is the same dude that brought you Ness bearing a jealous grudge against Macho*Lucas posts back.

Here's a taste of how bad his writing is; Puri picks a pairing she's used to seeing badfic for. ( Look, he wrote Sonic/Shadow! Awww, how cute! )

From his profile: I'll also work more on keeping my fics more "in character", because I really don't want people to hate me! But, still...how can you get two characters to form a relationship in a romance fic without tweaking their personalities a little?

BUWAHAHAHAHAHA. It's called "growth" you ninny. Probably never occurred to the guy that relationships don't always end up 100% fluffy either. (Fluffy Mephiles/Anyone? Ah ha ha, that's like saying salt on the wound doesn't hurt)

HERE'S ANOTHER GEM:

Sonic couldn’t tell Amy that he hated DDR! “Oh, nothing! Come on, Amy, let’s go see a movie together! How about ‘Saving Private Ryan’?” A/N: I’ve never seen ‘Saving Private Ryan’, or do I plan to in the future, just so you know…

Soldiers lying in agony with their entrails scooped out at a blood-soaked beach of WWII... the Ultimate Date Movie! ♥

In short: WRITING PAIRINGS, NO MATTER HOW POPULAR OR BIZARRE, WILL NOT SERVE AS A GET-OUT-OF-JAIL-FREE CARD FOR GOOD WRITING.

I have more respect for a person who can get two people to hate each other to get involved convincingly than a 13-year-old cheapifying my OTP with mindless OOC crap.